This post is all about Mr. Jack, or as we often call him, Bubba. He is such a happy and busy baby! He is nearly eight months old and is already so accomplished. My bragging bumper sticker hasn't come through the mail yet, but it's been ordered.
He plays the piano and is self-taught! He loves anything noisy, which is probably why he loves his sister so much.
He has the ability to solve his own thirst issues, provided he has a full sippy cup within reach. He drinks like a pirate though, letting the water spill out of his mouth and all over his bib. Then he swings his cup around while singing gibberish (something akin to "Drink! Drink! Drink!") and slams it down on his tray, sloshing his drink all over the place.
He is also trained is self-defense and has developed new and unheard of methods, such as: drooling, hair-pulling, neck pinching, and face-poking. The hardest hold to get out of is one I like to call The Leech. He pinches both sides of his opponents neck, pulls his/her face forward into his open and slimy mouth and attaches to the forehead with intense sucking power. Unable to pull away due to the extreme neck grip, the opponent (or rather, victim) has no choice but to wait until Jack decides to let go. A variation of that is The Snorkel, equally difficult to escape. He uses the same approach, but instead of attaching to the forehead he goes for the entire nose. Sometimes he bites.
He can swim, provided the water isn't very deep and he stays on his back. He's a big fan of water. Sometimes he crawls in to the bathroom, pulls himself up at the tub and then just stands there looking in. He often has his tongue out during baths and kicks non-stop. The bathroom is very wet after he's done and ready to get out.
He crawls under close-to-collapsing bridges with no fear. He has been crawling for nearly a month now. He figured out how to roll at 3 months, sit at 5 months, crawl at 7 months, and pull himself up at 7 1/2 months. He's into everything and is just a non-stop kid. He can't even hang around long enough for a complete diaper change and usually takes off as soon as the diaper is off. Good thing he's usually in such a pleasant mood or he'd be serious trouble.
This is just a cute picture, no explanation behind it. He did like sucking on the sparkly ribbon, though, which left him with a sparkly (albeit toothless) smile. Actually, all of him ended up pretty sparkly after some present tasting.
He has excellent pointing skills. He points and pokes at everything with his tiny little pointer fingers. He's up for a little E.T. pointing whenever, as is demonstrated in the above photograph.
Here he is hanging out with Addie during her last dental appointment with Bapa. He has very big and very blue eyes. He usually looks surprised. Or maybe he actually is surprised all the time. It's hard to see, but he has fuzzy blond-white hair all over his head. Or maybe just in a few patches...like I said, it's hard to see. But you can feel it, so we know it's there.
This is a living, breathing Jack-in-the-Box. He even pops out like the fake ones.
Okay, maybe he's just like a lot of other babies, but we sure think he's one-of-a-kind. We love this little boy so much and can't even remember what life was like without him. Or maybe we just don't want to.
Oh, and it occurred to me that some of you might be thinking that we've planned for all the girls in our family to have A names and all the boys to have J names. We are actually not doing that, but it seemed wise to pick names that would work with that plan just in case we decide we want to at some future point. Smart, eh?
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